When I started looking for a general purpose
logging program, I wanted a program that had flexible log searching with
wildcards, the ability to track all the common awards, the ability to import
and export ADIF and the ability to flexibly print mailing labels and QSL
cards. Getting rig control and telnet and packet cluster would be icing on
the cake.

I evaluated everything from Logger by KC4ELO, which will do
everything in the world including packet, grayline maps, satellite tracking
and built-in digital modes to the more bare bones logging programs like
ACLog by N3FJP, GenLog by W3KM, VQLog by EA6VQ, QSOManager by IK4CLF, KLog
by K5CRO and LogPA by PA3HBI.

After evaluation, I settled on XMLog by Michael McAmis, W1ECT. Not only
did XMLog include everything in my criteria above, but it included cw or
voice alerts when spots meeting your criteria were posted! Now my computer
will announce the station when a rare one is spotted. XMLog is also
supported by an active Yahoo group.

Now that you have a good, general purpose logging program, you may need
software to help you import logs from other programs. With the software I
found, you can convert to and from about a dozen different formats.